Wildlife News Articles From November 2008

• Expeditions reveal Gulf of California’s deep sea secrets and human disturbance.
• New National Park in Cameroon to protect Cross river gorilla
• Wildlife news letters
• Garden wildlife survey results - Free advice on how to improve your garden
• Congo Rangers regain access to Virunga National Park and the gorillas 14 months after war forced them to flee
• Rehabilitating bears to the wild – India’s bear keepers.
• Stone curlew reaches conservation target ahead of schedule – but dangers signs are flickering
• Dire breeding season for British and Icelandic Seabirds
• Have Great Spotted woodpeckers colonised Ireland?
• Results of British Waterways’ annual survey reveals diversity of waterway wildlife
• Buffalo reintroduced into Liuwa Plains National Park
• Scotland's natural environment worth £17.2 billion a year to the economy
• Business backed conservation award boost for rare Grey partridges
• New Machrihanish Golf course preserves wildlife
• 3000 animals distributed to new parks after Kenya land sale.
• UK waterbirds in decline – with 1-2 exceptions.
• Management of the bluefin tuna fishery as “an international disgrace”
• Bees voted as Most Valuable Species at Royal Geographical Society debate
• WildCare scheme boosting rare birds on UK farms
• Severn Estuary tidal reef cheaper and more efficient than barrage
• Mass stranding of whales in Tasmania
• Noctule bats found in Cornwall woodlands
• Has anyone seen any Waxwings this winter?
• Amur tiger tracks found in China
• DNA tests identify new species of dolphin in Australia
• White-tailed sea eagles to be released in Norfolk?
• Dwindling Hopes of Offspring from Lonesome George as eggs are infertile
• Wallasea Island to be transformed with Crossrail spoil
• First otter ever recorded on Farne Islands
• Decking and ornamental plants responsible for 70 percent decline in house sparrows
• Norwegian beavers arrive in UK for Scottish reintroduction
• UK wins deal on set-aside
• Study doubles species diversity of enigmatic 'flying lemurs'
• New, now extinct, penguin found in New Zealand
• ‘Extinct’ Pygmy tarsier rediscovered in Indonesia
• UK’s biggest ever Countryside Survey results published
• EU to remove protection for wildlife
• New Mexican reserve and nest box success offer hope for eventual reintroduction of endangered thick-billed parrots to the U.S.
• Seabirds on the Farne Islands buck the national trend
• 900 oven-ready owls & 7,000 live lizards seized in Malaysia
• Record brood of 9 Whooper swan cygnets arrive at Martin Mere
• Scottish bird crime still far too high
• Twin leucistic moorhens in the north west UK
• Crackdown leads to arrest of 57 wildlife criminal suspects across Africa
• New species of gecko discovered in Vanuatu
• Kakapo dies after operation – But large breeding season in prospect
• Legless lizard from Brazil conformed as new species
• Scientists announce major progress towards historic Census of Marine Life in 2010
• Tuatara breed on mainland New Zealand for the first time for 200 years
• Ancient Woodland could win £45,000 grant with your help
• Starling spectacular at Leighton Moss
• A million tonnes of fish dumped in the North Sea every year
• 30% of world’s fish catch goes to make fish meal for farm animals
• Mockingbirds, not finches, set Darwin on the road to evolution. - New exhibition at the Natural History museum
• ‘Eco-towns’ will harm wildlife
• Woolly Rhino fossil discovered at the Cotswold Water Park!
• Lundy Manx Shearwaters booming since rats removed.
• Devon dormice turning to birdfeeders for food.
• 90% drop in Africa’s lion population in 20 years. Does anyone care?
• Italian fishermen agree to bluefin tuna moratorium, while Spanish Parliament pushes for sanctuaries
• CDs to deter elephants from crop raiding
• Farmland birds reach lowest levels for 40 years - RSPB urges swift action
• Gorilla rangers all safe - for now
• Leakey speaks about ivory auctions and their disservice to conservation
• Mapping Britain & Ireland’s birds – you can help to plug the gaps.
• How to help wildlife in your garden through the winter
• BTO nest box challenge 2008
• 20 people imprisonment for hunting Asiatic lions in Gir Forest
• Forest elephants trapped by road building
• Sea Shepherd Conservation Society announces new operation against Japanese whalers
• Black Rhino moved to new home in the Karoo National Park
• Winners of WWT Nikon photography competition announced
• Snare removals and rescues in Zimbabwe
• New reserve created for remaining Amur leopards
• Amur leopard, the world’s rarest big cat, still clinging on in Russia
• Reaction to the decision to let Donald Trump build over an SSSI
• Male eland antelope ‘crack’ their knees to attract the girls
• Somerset Wildlife Trust creates new bat habitat
• New fungus linked with the death of 100,000 bats in USA
• 'Golden' lion of the South Luangwa National Park
• Dire year for kittiwakes, Arctic terns and Arctic Skuas in UK
• Flying fox back from the brink of extinction
• 39 gorilla rangers missing in DRC
• New Zealand government fails to stop shark finning